There’s an interesting meeting of the Indiana Area School Board’s Outreach Committee tonight, at which the committee members will discuss the district’s summer school plan, and the new summer program for elementary school students.
Indiana Area has two summer school offerings: credit advancement and credit recovery. And while 98 percent of credit advancement students earn passing grades in summer school, more than 48 percent of those enrolled in summer recovery are unsuccessful. The district has acknowledged the frustrations with helping students who have failed in the classroom in the regular school year to recover lost ground in summer school, and is proposing to change the model to provide more support for the struggling students, including the hiring of two additional counselors, more support personnel including a school psychologist and a reading specialist, more hours for teachers to work with students, and efforts to make the summer school more fun.
The committee also plans to discuss the state PSSA and Keystone exams, which have come under much scrutiny across the commonwealth. Last year’s exams were canceled due to the pandemic, and there are calls to eliminate them this year as well. The state has delayed the exams, likely until May.
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